I agree that there is a terrible amount of illegals, but please- send reports of all this to chuck skolat of ARRL. He works very hard to get officials involved. You may not think its much, but they try. Also- I find that a few CQ's from you and some friends all sending olivia on AM can tend to push the scum off the band Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Don-kg4gvv <kg4gvv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sender: hfbeacons-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:32:05 To: <AR-Beacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [HFbeacons] 10m *Monday October 17, 2011 Hi all, This last scan of the day was a hard one...I really had to listen carefully though all the QRM from illegal AM'ers on the fives. I don't remember this level of QRM from illegals during Cycle 23. There must be a whole lot more illegal radios now. 10m used to be my favorite band but that is slowly changing. I am seriously considering removing my beacon from 10m and placing it on another band...maybe 6m. Weather we like it or not, we are slowly losing our band to illegals. Nothing is being done about it and it is getting worse. I'm hearing more of them on the phone portion 28300 to 28500. 23:07---23:21 Z 28.1660 XE2O Allende,NL,Mexico 1307 miles/2103 km 28.1710 XE1FAS Puebla, MX 1472 miles/2369 km 28.1730 VA5LF Saskatoon Saskatchewan Can 1868 miles/3007 km 28.1770 HP1RCP Panama City,Panama 1662 miles/2675 km 28.1960 LU4JJ Concordia,E.R. Arg 4689 miles/7537 km 28.1970 LU5FB Rosario,SF,Argentina 4735 miles/7620 km 28.1990 LU1FHH El Trebol,SF,Arg 4648 miles/7479 km 28.2000 LU4AA Buenos Aires,AR 4896 miles/7878 km 28.2265 N7MSH North Powder, OR 2166 miles/3486 km 28.2345 KA0SWT Pueblo,CO 1416 miles/2278 km 28.2365 W0KIZ Denver,Colorado 1452 miles/2337 km 28.2824 KD0GZJ Loveland, Colorado 1466 miles/2359 km 28.2880 WA7LNW Hurricane Mesa, UT 1883 miles/3031 km **73 Don,kg4gvv South Carolina, USA Grid Locator:EM93wa*